Shopping
May 11, 2008
A Caribbean vacation, to most people is more than just laying out on a white sand beach next to the beautiful Caribbean Sea or water-skiing and wave-riding and eating and dancing the night away. Yes, St. Maarten and Saint Martin offers duty-free shopping!
The lovely little dual-nation island is a shopper’s paradise, with several thousand stores and boutiques and no sales tax nor import duties. Dutch St. Maarten’s shopping district in Philipsburg has often been called the Mecca of Caribbean shopping. Visitors from the Caribbean region and around the world travel to the island to shop at world famous stores like Boolchand’s, Klass Electronics, Om Jewelers, Diamond International, Angelo’s Boutique, and dozens of world reknown franchise sell their merchandise at prices that easily outmatch their other Caribbean outlets simply because French Saint Martin and Dutch St. Maarten enjoy a duty-free port without the hassle of high import tariffs that drive prices up elsewhere.
Jewelry, electronics, cameras, gold and silver, watches, designer couture, leather handbags and accessories, linens and liquor and tobacco are a handful of the real deal offerings on the Friendly Island. Saint Martin’s West Indian Mall and the Marina in Marigot, the French side capital, are popular areas for shoppers on the northern part of the island. With daily discounts and a rich selection of products, both attract shoppers that enjoy diversity and great prices.
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